Build Failure: Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed.

If you get this error trying to build your Silverlight application in TeamBuild: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Silverlight\v4.0\Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed, and you know that you have it installed on your build machine, don’t panic.  There is an easy solution to this:

Go to your build definition, select the “Process” tab, and under “Advanced” change the value for MSBuild platform from “Auto” to X86

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This happens when you are running your builds on a 64-bit build server.  The reason for this is that the Silverlight SDK seems to have trouble compiling under a 64-bit environment, and your 64-bit build server will try to use those settings when you set it to “Auto”.

This will turn your build from image  to image

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